“Is California Really a High-Tax State?”
That is the headline on a recent report from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), a liberal Washington, D.C. research group that wants us to believe the answer is “no” even as our wallets are screaming, “Yes!”
The report received a fair amount of publicity, as have ITEP’s past publications with similar themes, so it warrants some discussion.
As the leaders of the two largest taxpayer organizations in California...